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תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, a hymn of creation (translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan)

Psalms 104, translated by Mordecai Kaplan and presented as “God as Creator and Renewer of Nature” can be found on p. 360-5 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945), the first prayer in a subsection of supplementary prayers called “GOD IN NATURE.” . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106)

Tags: Barkhi Nafshi, hymns of creation, Openers, Psalms 104

Contributor(s): Mordecai Kaplan, the Masoretic Text, Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, a hymn of creation (translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi)

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of “Barkhi Nafshi” (Psalms 104) for Rosh Ḥodesh in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). To the best of my ability, I have set his translation side-by-side with the verses comprising the Psalm. –Aharon N. Varady . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106)

Tags: Barkhi Nafshi, devotional interpretation, hymns of creation, interpretive translation, Openers, Psalms 104

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), the Masoretic Text and Unknown Author(s)

תהלים ק״ד | Psalms 104, translated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

An English translation of Psalm 104 set side-by-side with the Masoretic text. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh, Tehilim Book 4 (Psalms 90–106)

Tags: Barkhi Nafshi, hymns of creation, Openers, Psalms 104

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text, Unknown Author(s) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

Beim Einsegnen des Neumondes (ver. 2) | At the Blessing of the New Moon (ver. 2), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Vor dem Einsegnen des Neumondis (Desselben Inhalts)” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №17 on pp. 24-25. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, new moon, שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Beim Einsegnen des Neumondes (ver. 1) | At the Blessing of the New Moon (ver. 1), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Vor dem Einsegnen des Neumondis” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №16, on pp. 20-21. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №16 on pp. 23-24. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, new moon, שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Meditation on the Works of God, by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1830s)

“Meditation on the works of God” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 79-82. It is not found in the US edition. . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah la-Melakhim, Rosh Ḥodesh, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (נִיסָן)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, hymns of creation, Nature, teḥinot in English, תחינות teḥinot, testament to divine reality

Contributor(s): Grace Aguilar and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Au Renouvellement Du Mois: Sur la Brièveté de la Vie | At the New Moon: On the Brevity of Life, by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1848)

To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of a teḥinah (supplicatory prayer) composed in parallel to the Prayer for the New Moon, following in the paraliturgical tradition of Yiddish tkhines, albeit written in French. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Translation, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, memento mori, North American Jewry, Paraliturgical Prayer for the New Month, paraliturgical teḥinot, שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim

Contributor(s): Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer on the New Moon, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

A paraliturgical prayer for the New Moon on Rosh Ḥodesh. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Gebet] Am Neumonde | Prayer for the Day of New Moon, by Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda (1855)

This is the prayer for Rosh Ḥodesh (the day of the New Moon, and first day of the month in the Jewish calendar) included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German, Stunden der Andacht (1855). Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. The translation in English was made by Moritz Mayer in his abridged translation of Neuda’s collection, Hours of Devotion (1866). . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Wikisource Contributors (transcription), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda, Moritz Mayer (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אלהים חיי הטבע | Elohim the Life of Nature, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1945)

“God the Life of Nature” by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan was first published in his Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1945), p. 382-391, where it appears side-by-side with its translation into Hebrew by Abraham Regelson. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., hymns of creation

Contributor(s): Abraham Regelson (translation), Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

סדר חצוצרות לראש חודש | Seder Ḥatsotsrot l’Rosh Ḥodesh (the Rite of Trumpets for the New Moon)

A ritual for a public blast of the silver trumpet on the new moon, to be inserted before the recitation of the psalm for the new month. It is the hope of the editor that the fulfillment of this joyous mitzvah will once more be practiced throughout all Israel. Or, barring that, at least a few more places. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, new moon, Psalm of the Day, שיר של יום Shir Shel Yom, trumpets

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

קידוש לראש חודש, לפי מסכת סופרים | A Sanctification of the New Month, reconstructed from Masekhet Soferim by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This is a litanic Ḳiddush for a Rosh Ḥodesh meal, constructed based on the Ḳiddush for Rosh Ḥodesh in Jerusalem as described in Masekhet Soferim chapter 19:9, mostly following the GRA’s edition. Traditionally it would be done in the presence of twelve town elders and twelve scholars of ritual purity, but today we could adapt it to be recited at a festive meal for Rosh Ḥodesh in the presence of seven — the minyan count according to the traditional Western practice recorded elsewhere in Masekhet Soferim 10:7. . . .

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh

Tags: 46th century A.M., 8th century C.E., Geonic prayers, Masekhet Soferim, new moon, Nusaḥ Erets Yisrael, reconstructed text

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer, Unknown Author(s) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17